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From: "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities
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"Huge" <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote in message 
news:d405tfFeaa7U4@mid.individual.net...
> On 2015-08-23, Santo Brown <sb8743@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Huge" <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:d3urm7F528oU2@mid.individual.net...
>>> On 2015-08-23, Santo Brown <sb8743@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:d3uhhnF2hsmU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>> "Walter Banks" wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> WRT gates and Jobs
>>>>>
>>>>>> Neither were in the position to force customers to use their product.
>>>>>> They didn't sell products based on price alone. Sales volume is an
>>>>>> interesting way to keep score. They both have had products that were
>>>>>> widely copied. Why do people buy their products then?
>>>>>
>>>>> Remind me which products of Gates was widely copied?
>>>>
>>>> The Win UI is widely copied in linux distros.
>>>
>>> Irrelevant, given that it's all copied from Xerox PARC.
>>
>> The Win UI that is widely copied in linux
>> distros is nothing like what Xerox PARC had.
>>
>> It was much closer to the Mac UI.
>
> I would be prepared to wager that there are very few people on this 'froup
> who actually worked with the Xerox Star. I'm one of them.

You don’t have to work on it personally to
see a comparison of the detail of the UIs.

> And I'm afraid you're very wrong.

Not with the look and feel.